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Kite Aerial Photography
j cherney writes "A great combination of digital photography, kite flying, and wireless remote control. Absolutely incredible pictures. Enjoy!" We've mentioned this expensive pursuit a few times before, including a bit on how to build one of your own.
Is the new trend down blouse pictures? I like it already.
and put a camera on it so you can see when it dies. :p
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I managed to see one picture before the site died.
Hmm...I forsee great business opportunities for camera repair shops.
Hi there
What I think would be alot cooler is if someone stuck a small wireless camera (you can pick them up for like $30 on ebay) on a kite. It would be alot lighter as those things are tiny (the heavyest part would likely be the 9v battery), and you still make stills later if you really wanted to.
Just my 2c.
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It's not art just because you don't like it. What about slinging your brush and dripping paint on a giant canvas? Would you consider that art or not (Jackson Pollock)?
Yes, it's art.
I see a use for... http://www.thehaefners.com.nyud.net:8090/gallery/
Webmaster - please contact support as soon as possible. Sooomebodyss innn troouubllleee....
hey, get out there and shake your tits on a webcam like everyone else.
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Inflate some pool rafts and kiddy pools with helium and start crafting some aerodynamics using the principals observed.
type 'pool raft' in google and hit that 'image' tab if you want to start visualizing it.
might be more like helium-raft-parachute photography but hey.
Stop invalid scientific research. Ask your local scientists to feed their lab rats with a phytoestrogen-free chow.
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I've been interested in photography for as long as I can remember, and kite aerial photography (KAP) seemed like a natural progression. At least it did after my friend, Thomas Dewez, convinced me that it isn't completely ridiculous to suspend an $800 camera from a kite. After seeing the potential in online galleries, I knew that I had to do this! I spent a few months researching equipment, technique, etc. before diving in. I had not flown a kite since I was a kid, so I'm learning as I go...
These web pages will serve as a photo gallery of select images, as well as a general information source on equipment, technique, and other related info. Be sure to see my 360 virtual reality (VR) panoramas taken from a kite's eye view. They might take a while to load (depending on your connection speed), but it should be worth the wait.
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From the nameservers it looks like he's serving out of his own house (as I posted up a few notches).
That said, if he wants to put in a trouble ticket to www.dynamicname.com, he might have a bit of trouble:
"The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings."
I've heard of throttling, but self-throttling seems a bit extreme.
Easier way to do this is to use a camera that just takes a pic every so many minutes and just tie it to a stable kite. It will dangle around randomly but it works and you get a decent picture sometimes. As to putting a wireless camera on a kite, just put a wireless camera on a really high performance stunt kite and then wear a head mounted display while you fly it around at 100mph. That would make an exciting vomit machine.
(Reminds me of Ben Franklin!)
This should teach us all not to expose cameras to lightning when still plugged to servers!
O make me a mask
reminds of the linux powered weather balloon
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My kite kept getting tangled in its string and went spiraling into buildings. Lose more cameras that way :-)
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There's also Photoplane which consists of putting a camera on a radio-guided plane.
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Perhaps all slashdot links should automatically have the nyud.net:8090 tacked on. Save everyone the trouble
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Well, since the mentioned site is slashdotted try this one instead for some aerial kite photography.
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Let's keep art away from the commoners - I don't want my opening parties spoiled by mouth-breathers.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Imagine the pictures you'd get from flying a kite around that Heffner's house.
Pointing your camera at the ground and pressing the shutter does not a piece of art make.
unless you happen to be minor white
Sure you get a bunch of photos, but can you really say that you, the photographer, were the one taking the random, haphazard pictures?
Seriously consider found art, Dada, postmodern art and other forms of high art and the answer is yes, btw did you bother to look at the pictures before ranting? I am a photographer and was taken by the composition and beauty of the pictures.
I hate when people demean art by claiming that their homespun crap is on par with the work of true artists.
It is impossible to demean art. I hate it when people think that art has to be made by a certain class of people to be art. And by homespun crap are you referring to folk art? If it was in a gallery you would call it art.
I'm looking right at you, Thomas Kinkade!
And poor Thomas Kinkade will go home and cry in his big pile of money.
Speak of the devil, I did this the other weekend using a $15 stunt kite and my digital camera, a Sony P32 (got it for only $90 at Target, so I felt it was worth the risk)
The video on this little cam is great, 640x480 at 24fps (though it actually seems more like 15fps, some frames are doubled). With a 128M memory stick, I can get 5 minutes of video and audio. Viewing the results on TV is great, it's almost DVCam quality.
I'd love to post the videos here (some flyovers at the beach), but my department's sysadmin would be pissed if I uploaded the 20+M mpgs. There's audio too, but it's basically wind noise, and not very interesting.
Your hybrid is not saving the environment. Its purpose is to make you feel good about buying something.
I am not sure how many people would pay to see somebody called "eric" shaking their tits.... You never know though, takes all sorts...
Ever heard of Duchamp? or the readymade? Duchamp did things like put a toilet in an exhibition. Duchamp didn't demean art in the same way that the photograph didn't/doesn't demean art.
Lookup the whole Dada movement. Art is about it's own destruction as much as it is about anything else.
attach yourself to the kite, and take pictures when YOU jump into the air.
s er1_256. wmv
8 meg WMV which has some pretty hairy shots.
http://www.kitefilm.com/video/completetea
lots of kite discussions here http://www.kiteforum.com
including some nice pics in the gallery
i for one welcome our new kiteboarding overlords.
How long has the Estes Astrocam been around? I remember playing with one in the 70's. It was an Estes rocket that you actually built (!!!) and it had a nose-cone with a 110 film cartridge type camera. It was a pretty cheap shutter mechanism and even cheaper lens. Getting good results was rare, but when you're 9 years old, it was the epitome of high-tech.
I think most of the roll ended up being pictures of my hand as I checked out the shutter function, maybe 1 arial shot, and some that misfired when the rocket got back to earth (nothing more frustrating than getting the film developed only to find some sideways pictures of tall grass).
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I've been working on pigeon aerial photography. It's like KAP only you strap a camera to a pigeon. No this is not a joke. In fact the technology is about 100 years old. If you try it at home you'll find out that it's harder than it appears, but not impossible.
We've been doing this with model airplanes for awhile now. Next Slashdot will be posting links on how to build your own UAV/RPV... It's easy to get some LIVE video using a camera BlackWidowAV.com sells. Combine that with a GPS Autopilot from u-nav.com and you have your own drone. Set waypoints to fly over your neighbors house and feed back live video of what their kids are doing...